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Appendix A: Past Institute of Medicine Reports on Global Health
Appendix A: Past Institute of Medicine Reports on Global Health
Pages 327-338
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; World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (2000) ; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2000)
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The board advised the U.S. government, in partnership with the corporate sector, to facilitate the development of a global network to carry out biomedical surveillance for existing and emerging infectious diseases and to serve as an early warning system for global health threats, such as potential attacks with chemical or biological agents.
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government to meet existing international aid commitments by investing $15 billion annually in global health by 2012,3 with $13 billion of that directed to the health-related Millennium Development Goals and $2 billion toward NCDs and injuries. Related recommendations include designing a coordinated funding approach for global health research that leverages the HHS budget for research subsidies and the foreign affairs budget for innovative funding mechanisms to procure drugs and diagnostics; prioritizing donor aid; and providing support for developing sound country-led national health plans with appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and review.
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To generate and share knowledge about how to most effectively address the health problems that disproportionately affect LMICs, the committee recommended that the U.S. research sector collaborate with global partners to leverage its scientific and technical capabilities to study the basic mechanisms of those diseases, to examine new interventions for infectious diseases, to reduce health system bottlenecks, and to rigorously evaluate programmatic efforts.
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foreign policy, given that acting in the global interest with priorities based on effectively attaining sustained health gains (rather than short-term strategic or tactical domestic benefits) will reap longer-term economic, diplomatic, and security rewards.5 KEY AREAS OF RECOMMENDATION AND ADVANCEMENTS TO DATE Despite the change in the global health landscape between the two IOM reports, certain key areas of recommendation remained consistent: sharing information, health research collaboration, health workforce capacity, U.S.
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. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded eight tropical research medicine centers in 2012 to support research on neglected tropical diseases in endemic areas.
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. The 2009 G20 meeting included food security but not water; however, at the 2009 G8 summit President Obama announced plans for increased investment in global food security.8 In surveillance, a focus of the 1997 report's recommendations, progress at the global level includes the International Health Regulations (established in 2005)
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has been unable to meet its mandate of "integrating and analyzing data relating to human health, animal, plant, food, and environmental monitoring systems" (Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, 2015)
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Institutional capacity building, as well as donor goals and financing, were areas of recommendation for the 2009 IOM report. To the former, the CDC Global Disease Detection Program works in 50 countries through 10 centers to develop six core capacities12 formulated to achieve compliance with International Health Regulations (CDC, 2016b)
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Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. ISID (International Society for Infectious Diseases)
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n.d. Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)
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